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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Has GNU Emacs been ported to the Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.044736.22968@servalan.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 91 04:47:36 GMT
References: <436@rufus.UUCP> <5535@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
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bskendig@dae.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:

>In article <436@rufus.UUCP> hellerst@ibmarc.uucp (Joe Hellerstein) writes:
>>I've seen muEmacs and Jove for the Mac, but I've never seen GNU Emacs, or
>>any stripped down version thereof.  I'd really like to get a hold of such a
>>thing, so I can use the same keywords, keymapping files, etc. that I use on 
>>my workstation, and also because neither Jove nor muEmacs supports basic
>>things like filename completion.

>GNU Emacs has not been ported to work under either MacOS or A/UX.  GNU

I'm glad you told me that; otherwise I might have been deluded into thinking
that I was using GNU Emacs under A/UX to write this message :-).  Seriously,
while the FSF refuses to support GNU Emacs under A/UX, other people have been
more than willing to take up the slack.  Check out Ron Flax's port avail. for
anonymous ftp on afsg.apple.com.  

>I know nothing about how difficult an A/UX port would be.  A port to
>have GNU Emacs run directly under the Macintosh Finder is
>significantly more difficult, because to my knowledge there is no
>curses library (routines to move the cursor around on a text screen)
>publically available for the Macintosh.

From looking at Ron Flax's changes to A/UX, it doesn't look to be much more
difficult than any other Unix port.  Fortunately, this doesn't matter, since
the port's already been done.  A MacOS port is an entirely difficult kettle of
fish, and I suspect that you won't see this anytime soon, if only because the
sort of people who know enough about GNU Emacs to do this are also the sort
who won't touch MacOS with a ten-foot pole :-).
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